Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-14
DAKOTA.

A vinegar factory has started up in Sioux
Falls.
The rivers and creeks OF the Black Hills are
rising.
spearfsh is getting ready to build a water
works system.
Marion junction elected a prohibition
ticket Monday.
A base ball stock company vii! be organ
ICED at Bismarck.
The Dell Rapids Granite company work 100
men In the quarries.
o.. A. Cheney, of Huron, on the "a inst.
purchased the Salem Register and will take
immediate possession.
The Congregational people OF Columbia
have recently completed one of the handsom-
est churches in Dakota.
Father Hare performed the conservation
services az the new Catholic church in Co.
lufnbia, on the lst inst.
Sioux Falls fire department elected chief,
John w. Hutchinson; assistants, II. X. Elan
nigan and C.. &. Mattox.
A mass meeting at Huron, on the 81 inst,
discussed fax mills, oil mills, water power,
gas franchises, railroads, etc.
VIM Kramer, former proprietor Of the
Merchants hotel at Yankton, is doing a com
mission business in Yankton.
Hughes county enjoyed heavy rains las
week. The farmers have about finished seed
ing and look for immense crops.
Before arbor week passes Huron will have
several hundred more shade trees growing ~
add to the beauty Of her streets aud homes.
a party Of fifteen families Of Russians are
going from southern Dakota to JOIN the New
Salem colony in Morton county, north Ia
kota.
The directory OF the deaf and dumb sch ,oi
at Sioux Falls is considering the erection of
a laundry and workshop AS a school attach
ment.
A party Of twenty families went west Mon.
day on the Nor thern Pacific 10 join the New
England company organized to locate in Hit
tenger county in northern Dakota. These
people are from Maine and Vermont.
A petition is being circulated at De Smet
and universally signed asking the governor 10
pardon Mrs. Bunchie, sentenced at the last
term OF court to pay a fine Of 500 md costs
for manslaughter in the second degree.
A stock company has been organized at De
Smet to be known as the De Smet hotel CON.
pany, for the purpose CT erecting a large
hotel. c. l.. Usher, formerly landlord of the
Holland, VIII lease the hotel for three years.
In the Huron court Judge Spencer has not
permitted matters TO lag. but dispatched
business as rapidly as practicable. Many
cases Of long standing have been disposed of
and the criminal docket cleared Of the most
important cases.
Two young ladies' of Rapid City became ex-
asperated, wearied and sleepy over the nightly
bowling of a couple Of dogs belonging to the
chief Of police, and rising and dressing at ,
O'Clock in the morning, they marched forth
with axes and battered down the pen in which
the brutes were imprisoned.
The marble beds Of Pennington county are
attracting considerable attention AT the pres
ent time, not because the marble is found TO
be OF any more superior quality than hitherto
known, but on account of the multifarious
and multitudinous deposits. In fact, it is
said that Rapid City is immurcd within a
marble wall.
Mrs. Goosen, living one and a bali miles
north Of Marion Junction, lost her house,
furniture, clothing, stables, 500 bushels Of
wheat and ! 0 bushels Of oats by fire early
Friday morning. a very strong wind was
blowing at .he time and she and two children
only escaped with their lives by climbing out
OF window.
The people effort Pierre are greatly dissat-
isfed over the discontinuancc OF the postoilice
at that point. Over a hundred patrons re-
ceive their mail at that Office and the citizens
look upon it as the first move toward eyicting
the settlers from this piece of land for the
past twelve years occupied by the settlers.
Fort Pierre is opposite Pierre.
There is still no solution Of the mystery Of
the disappearance Of Farmer Hartwig near
Richardson in Morton county, a few weeks
ago. Suspicion falls on Dietrich who was
last seen with him. 1t is said Dietrich ad-
vised Hartwig to take all his money with him
before they set out on the trip together.
Furthermore Dietrich, who was very poor all
winter, has just bought a carload Of lumber.
Ever since the year that Gen. Custer
camped at Yankton there has been a heavy
growth OF blue grass on the old camp ground.
A great many Of the Yankton people remove
yards Of the sod and transplant it in their
yards, where it thrivcs admirably. 1t Is sup
posed the command carried baled blue grass
for forage and the seed, scattered In feeding
the horses, took root and each year more seed
is scattered, thus keeping up the supply.
Wheat In Dakota this spring is, generally
speaking, in fine condition and the crop pros
poets are excellent. OF twenty counties from
which reports have been received, twelve
show an increased acreage over 1856. In
Cass county 5 to 10 per cent. more will be
sown than In 1886. The five Black Hills
counties also show an increase. Only one
county, Beadle, reports q decrease, and here
barley, rye and oats have been largely in
creased, the latter by so per cent. Grant is
the only Dakota county reported to be as
much as ten days late in seeding. The others
have been rather earlier than usual.
A Bismarck special OF the Both says: The
west-bound passenger train was thrown from
the track four miles east Of Sterling to day,
and six coaches were completely wrecked.
The wreck was the most disastrous this road
has experienced for months, and the fact that
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